Let’s write a video game from scratch like it’s 1987
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The opaque industry secretly inflating prices for prescription drugs
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Reuters investigation: US Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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‘Story Of Your Life’ is not a time-travel story (2018)
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How CoComelon captures our children’s attention
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The curious case of the underselling arena tours
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Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
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When the US CIA messes up
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AI will become mathematicians’ ‘co-pilot’
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The great deterioration of local community was a major driver of the loss of the play-based childhood
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The life and death of E3
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A Texas corporate lawyer got mad about illegal evictions—and did something about it
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Asylum seekers from Mauritania are settling in Cincinnati as immigration to the United States has soared
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The Donald Trump I saw on The Apprentice
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The food that makes you gay
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We live in a system of capitalist oligarchy
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Divine Hiddenness argument against God’s existence
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How we used esbuild to reduce our browser extension build times by 90%
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Significant cyber incidents | Strategic technologies program
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The moral economy of the Shire
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet going
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A socialist critique of Kohei Saito’s “start from scratch” degrowth communism
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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Better depression relief with electromagnetic treatment
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Extracting interpretable features from Claude 3 Sonnet
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The lunacy of Artemis
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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Fecal microbiota transplant: Inside the black market for human poop
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The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
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Cyber security: A pre-war reality check
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms
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‘Mitzvah night is cancelled’. Inside the sex strike that has infuriated husbands and shaken the ultra-Orthodox world.
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Do children have a “right to hug” their parents?
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Alice Munro, Nobel laureate and master of the short story, dies at 92
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A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
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Inside the Coyotes' stunning move from Arizona to Utah
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The land that doesn’t need Ozempic
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Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
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Meet AdVon, the AI-powered content monster infecting the media industry
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A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
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The history of the gas mask
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The Devil went down to Georgia
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Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
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